The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-09
RELIGIOUS.

banker, has donated GO ,o00,00o for
Russian Jewish common schools.
Yale and Harvard colleges have
/ put the bible on the list Of elective
Studies. How about our church
schoolsi
| Contcntmcnt is n pearl of great
| price, and whoever prucures it at the
expense of ten thousand desires makes
a wise and happy purchase.
Gratitude IS the homage the heart
renders to God for his goodness;
Christian cheerfulness is the external
manifestation OF the homage.
The Presbyterians of the Illinois
Synod gave to foreign missions this
year at the rate of Sl.2O apiece. Ten
years ago they gave 46 cents.
Thlrty.three missionary societies
are at work in Africa, and parts Of
the bible have been translated into
sixty-six dialects of that country.
"The Church of the Retired Chris
tians," spoken of by religious jour
nal, might prove a great blessing if
we cculd get all the religious edo
nOthings" to join 1t.
The Methodist Book Concern of
New York and Cincinnati, paid to
annual conferences for worn-out
preachers, in 1887, the sum of S24,-
600. Next year it will pay $4,000.
Let grace and goodness be the
principal loadstOne of thy affections.
For love which hath ends, will have
an end; whereas that which is found
ed on true virtue will always continue.
One will confer the greatest bene-
fits on his town not by raising its
roofs, but by exalting its souls; for it
is better that great souls should live
in small habitations than that abject
slaves should burrow in great houses,
We can be thankful to a friend for
a few acres or a little money; and
yet for the freedom and command of
the whole earth, and for the great
benefits of our being, our life, health
and reason, we look upon ourselves
as under no obligation.
These are the statistics Of the Epis-
eopal Diocese of Mississippi, given
at the sixtieth annual council: Cler-
gy, 81; lay readers, 90; candidates, 5;
baphsms, 358; combinations, 293;
COMMITMENTS, 2,5lO; Sunday school
teachers and scholars, 1897.
What has become Of the old Meth
odlst custom of two or three or half
dozen or more Christians covenanting
together to pray at a certain hour Of
a certain day of the week for re-
viVed ministry and a revived church?
Would it not be well to revive that
old fashion?
If some members of the church
would be as Jealous and work as earn
estIy to get sinners converted to God
as they do to get their candidates
into office, would we not have reyi.
val all the time? Zeal for politics
overshadows zeal for God, even with
most christian people. The patience
of God is most wonderful.
: What is the bible3 1t is the hiv,
Q Of all sweetness. 1t is the armory O
all welI-tempered weapons. 1t is thu
t tower containing the crown Jewels o
f the universe 1t is the lamp tina
kindles all other lights. 1t is tn
r. home of all majesties and splendors
= 1t is the mmriage-ring that unites tn
celestial and the terrestrial, while al
the clustering white-robed denizens 0
|. the sky lowering around rejoice q
the nuptlals.
n Rev. DIR. Marx Levy, an able an
n popular Jewish Divine, died in Ne,
g Orleans last Tuesday. Rev. Levy wa
r born at Saarlouis, Bavaria, in 1907
where be was ordained in 1926
e Twenty years ago he resigned hi
t charge there, and came to New Or
t leans. Here he never accepted
, charge, but preached to congregations
temporarily bereft of pastor, AMI
was prominent in charities. The Rev
Doctor leaves q widow and daughter
and FIVE sons tomourn his loss.
That those who suffer the most will
receive the greatest reward it is easy
to credit. But what of those who dc
not suffer? What of those who re.
ceiye only good things9 What is the
meaning Of continual joy, of uninter.
rupted peace, of a life glad and sun.
ny, and fall Of ceaseless song? What
of those whose only guests bring
cheer and music to their homes
These are the questions that are hard
to answer, whose answers are il
book which no human hand can nm
( clasp.
The fact is, that man has III him
self the double capacity Of beliegin,